The Ant Swap - by
I bend an ear to your sound, put my knees in the dirt,
/ offer my orifices to you like doorways
/ to…
I bend an ear to your sound, put my knees in the dirt,
/ offer my orifices to you like doorways
/ to…
Arriving late sometimes and never
/ Quite expected, still they come,
/ Bringing a folded meaning home
/ Between the lines, inside the letter.
/
/ As a scarecrow…
Such words can sound like flagged-up slogans, true. / What we merely say says nothing — / All that matters…
CE SOIR DERRIÈRE ce peu de jour
/ il y a une torche noire
/ c’est l’oiseau noir qui…
This morning I am ready if you are,
/ To hear you speaking in your new language.
/ I think I am beginning to…
What does it matter if the words
I choose, in the order I choose them in,
Go out into a silence I know
Nothing about?
‘A-a-ll the starboard watch!’
/ ‘Shairly no again!
/ What’s the wather like?’
/ ‘Cauld, wi sleet and rain.’
/
/ ‘Lofty. Depth-charge sentry.
/ Knocker. You’re stand-by.
/ Haggis. On the gun.
/ Shorty.
– We come in peace from the third planet.
/ Would you take us to your leader?
/
/ – Bawr stretter! Bawr. Bawr.
Wörter
/ meine Fallschirme
/ mit euch
/ springe
/ ich
/ ab
/
/ Ich fürchte nicht die Tiefe
/ wer euch richtig
/ öffnet
/
/ Schwebt…
The artist claimed
/ that ‘all art aspires
/ to the condition of music’
/ to complete autonomy.
/
/ That despite the seaport setting
/ his mural was abstract…
le taing do Niall
/
/ ‘S tric a chunnaic mi iad a’ tighinn ri chèile,
/ dithis seann eòlach, dithis chroitearan,
/ is às dèidh dhaibh…
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